Can Biden Unseat Trump? Only if Joe Gets on the Bong Bandwagon

The core values of this nation … our standing in the world … our very democracy … everything that has made America — America — is at stake. That’s why today I’m announcing my candidacy for President of the United States.

Joe Biden via Twitter

The Millennials:

The 2020 U.S. presidential election is rapidly approaching,
and the 18-35 age demographic will
determine its outcome. If a
candidate wants to woo the millennial class, he or she has to embrace
legalization. Cannabis is the issue to
galvanize and rally the troops. In 2020
it won’t be enough for Democratic candidates to simply talk about issues
important to young voters, like cannabis legalization and climate change. Presidential hopefuls will have to make
issues central to their campaign — and also prove they understand how those
issues affect young Americans.

2020
election success for either party requires the support of the voters between
the ages of 18 – 35. The cannabis issue
is overwhelmingly supported by that group, but Joe Biden is vulnerable to
Donald Trump on this item. He gives the
appearance that he supports legalization, while the truth is that he’s
ambiguous at best. The next group of
candidates cannot have fatal flaws at the outset like this.

Joe Biden:

Joe Biden has a poor record of any presidential candidate
when it comes to marijuana law reform.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML),
called Biden’s record “abysmal” and described him as “one of the architects of
many of our nation’s draconian drug policies.”

Joe Biden’s history as a drug warrior and his antiquated
attitudes toward cannabis may well be a drag on his effort to reinvent himself
as a 21st-century Democrat. Mason Tvert,
spokesperson for the Marijuana Policy Project, characterized Biden as “one of
the most aggressive drug warriors in Congress” who does not appear to have
reversed or even softened his stance on marijuana, despite the majority of the
Democratic candidates vocalizing their support for legalization.

The Other Candidates:

Cannabis will play a major role in the 2020 elections, and
as an issue, it will serve as a litmus test in the Democratic primaries. Democratic politicians are increasingly
supportive of efforts to remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled
substances and expunge the records of those with cannabis-related criminal
convictions.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker reintroduced the Marijuana Justice Act, which would legalize cannabis nationwide and retroactively expunge the criminal records of those convicted of marijuana-related offenses. Earlier this year, Booker announced he is running for president. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders filed the Senate’s first-ever legalization bill in 2015 and made it a distinguishing factor in the 2016 race against Hillary Clinton.

The Future:

At the end of the day, what this all means is that no political party – except for maybe Libertarians – has a monopoly on the issue of cannabis legalization. The important question is not who will push legalization forward but how? It is important to know whether the candidates are for or against rescheduling, decriminalizing or legalizing cannabis on a federal level.

How will cannabis shape the 2020 election? While I can’t say for sure, I know this much
is true: originality wins over traditionalism any day, and that’s why Trump
currently holds court over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Ted A. Corless Esq. has arrived as the preeminent force of gusto and guile in revolutionizing the way people talk about the news. Ted knows the chief way to get Americans thinking critically about polarizing issues is to break them down by defining and examining abstract political, religious, governmental, environmental, cultural, economic, and legal themes.

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About Ted Corless

Ted A. Corless Esq. has arrived as the preeminent force of gusto and guile in revolutionizing the way people talk about the news. Ted knows the chief way to get Americans thinking critically about polarizing issues is to break them down by defining and examining abstract political, religious, governmental, environmental, cultural, economic, and legal themes.